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Article #3026Re: PostScript vs TrueType?
From: James 'Kibo' Parry
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 22:41
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 22:41
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In article <20146@well.sf.ca.us> shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter) writes:
>Woody posted code containing the following fragment as an
>example of something that would hang an NEC LC890, with the
>request that fellow LC890 owners would test it.
>
>{
> currentfile( )readstring
> {
> (%%%)eq %look for separator
> {
> exit
> }if
> }
> {
> pop %hangs, looking forever
> }ifelse
>}loop
>%
>% ...bunch of PostScript code to skip over...
>%
>%%%%%%
>
>Sorry, Woody, but your LC890 file works just fine on my LC890.
>It finds the (%%%) and exits.
It also seems to work for others--the DTP program "PageStream" uses it
when downloading fonts (so that the fonts are skipped if they're already
known). (PageStream's prep file looks for "%%%%%" and not "%%%", but
that doesn't matter...) As far as I know, PageStream works on those
printers.
--
james "kibo" parry, 138 birch lane, scotia, ny 12302 <-- close to schenectady.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!kibo From: kibo@pawl.rpi.edu (James 'Kibo' Parry) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: PostScript vs TrueType? Message-ID: <AN'%21*@rpi.edu> Date: 6 Sep 90 22:41:46 GMT References: <9931@goofy.Apple.COM> <1513@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <20146@well.sf.ca.us> Organization: The Wacky World of Kibology. Only in Schenectady. Lines: 36